Yearly Archives: 2014

Minimum Density Rules

Last summer, the national pharmacy chain CVS decided to enter the Seattle market, building new stores in Lower Queen Anne, Wallingford, and West Seattle....

A Disease You Wanted to Catch

  Northbound Aurora at 100th. Leaning into the front door: "Hey, did you see a, I left a wallet a couple hours ago…?" "Uhh," I said. I look...

Mukilteo’s Unique Opportunity

Departing the Mukilteo terminal. Photo by the author. Located just southwest of Everett, the city of Mukilteo boasts excellent urban amenities, many transportation options, and...

Sunday Video: Creating Functional Streets for Livable Cities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8zZdLw7cs Bicycle Culture by Design from TEDx Talks on YouTube. Mikael Colville-Andersen of Copenhagenize Design Co. gives us a brief history of our streets and suggests how we can...

What We’re Reading: Transit Ridership, Road Safety, Elevators

Apparently, transit is popular: In 2013, Americans made almost 10.7 billion public transit trips. Around the country, transit agencies are taking note. In San Francisco, Muni plans...

A Dishonest Moratorium On Providing More Housing

A number of local neighborhood groups have banded together to push their agenda of preventing more housing. They are using the misleading name, Coalition...

The Urbanist Case for $15/Hour

Over the past year, there has been a growing faction in Seattle that believes the minimum wage should be higher -- much higher. The...

Where There Was Nothing Before

  At 3rd and Virginia, on my 358: a large African-American man in his fifties gets on. I ask him how he's doing. He's doing...